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openSUSE 15 Security Update : bitcoin (openSUSE-SU-2024:0052-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 190618

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2024:0052-1 advisory.

 - Bitcoin Core 0.14.x before 0.14.3, 0.15.x before 0.15.2, and 0.16.x before 0.16.3 and Bitcoin Knots 0.14.x through 0.16.x before 0.16.3 allow a remote denial of service (application crash) exploitable by miners via duplicate input. An attacker can make bitcoind or Bitcoin-Qt crash. (CVE-2018-17144)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?7dc2f550

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17144

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 190618

File Name: openSUSE-2024-0052-1.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/17/2024

Updated: 2/17/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-17144

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:bitcoind, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:bitcoin-utils, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:bitcoin-qt5, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:bitcoin-test, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libbitcoinconsensus-devel, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.5, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libbitcoinconsensus0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/16/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/19/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-17144